Kuala Lampur, May 1 -- YANGON, May 1 - At the leafy villa where Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi had spent years locked up, there were no signs yesterday it would become a renewed site of political pilgrimage as it did during her previous house arrest.

While her shift to private detention appeared to be a rare concession by the authorities that have detained the deposed leader since a 2021 coup, supporters fear that any contact with the public would be severely restricted.

The Yangon lakeside mansion where Suu Kyi had been siloed under military detention, including when she was awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for pro-democracy activism, was under its usual security lockdown.

Barbed-wire traffic barricades remained in place next to a polic...